Window-shade bracket.



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WINDOW SHADE BRACKET.

APPLICATION man umm. 19:1.

Patented Nov. 5, 1918..

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WINDOW-SHADE BRACKET.

Application filed December 24, 1917.

To all fic/toni t may concern.'

Bc it known. that l, HERBERT W. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and resident oiiCoon Rapids, Carroll county, loWa, have invented a new and useful Window-Shade Bracket, of which the following is a specification.

The cbjectof this invention is to provide an improved construction for a shade or curtain. bracket adapted to be removably and replaceably mounted in a `vvindovv frame Without the use of screws, nails or other attaching media'.

`il further object of this invention is to provide improved means for adjusting a shade or curtain bracket `to diilierent Windows having elements differently spaced apart.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for locking a yvini dow sash through the use in a given position ot a Window shade or curtain bracket.

My invention is an improvement on the device for which Letters Patent of the United States Number 1,231,-L4L1 were granted to ine June 26, 1917, and consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, iiioiiited out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in Which y Figure 1 is an elevation of a part of tlie loft side portion of a Window frame (shown conventionally) illustrating my improved device mounted therein in position for practical use. F ig. 2 is a similar elevation of the right side portion of the sain3 Window frame showing the coa'cting element ofimy improved device in position for practical use. Fig. 3 is a front elevation, Fig. t an end elevation and Fig. 5 a cross-section on the indicated line 5- 5 of Fig. 3, illustrating my improved device in detail and on an enlarged scale, the dottedlines in shoiving positions into which certain elements may be adjusted. y I

In the construction of the device as shown the numerals 10, 11 designate engaging members preferably-made of bar metal and formed with rolls or eyes 12, 13 on opposite ends, said rolls or eyes lying Wholly at one side of the plane of the body of said meinbers. A supporting bar 14e is mounted transversely of the central portions of the engaging members 10, 11 and pivots 15, 16 are mounted through and connect the supporting bai-and members, said pivots beinglocated on the median line of the supporting `Sipeelncatinn of Letters `Patent.

of the engaging gins of the engaging members 10,

upper rail of said sash to `Pettit-nnted Nov. 5, 1918., serial ivo. 208,707.

bar and to one side each ofthe `median line members. ln other Words the engaging members 10, 11`are .pivoted eccentrica-lily on or by means of the pivots 15, 1G. The supporting bar 14- may extend any desired distance laterally from the engaging member 11 and is formed at its outer end either With a hole 17 or a lateral notch 18 oJe'ning upwardly therein. The hole 17 is a aptedto receive the round rigid pivot commonly used in shade rollers and projecting at oneend therefrom and the notch 1S is adapted to receive the angular springactuated pivot commonly used `in. and projecting at the opposite end from the shade roller. l do not desire to be limited, honever, to any particular construction of the attaching means at the outer end of the supporting' means as the same may be varied in many particulars Without departing from this invention, such variation depending upon and indicated by the use to which this device is put in respect of sustaining eXtraneous elements.

In practical use the device is mounted .in pairs one on cit-hei' side of a Window as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2,' the engaging ineinbe'rs 10, 11 being located parallel with each other in a groove 19 'between a stop 20 and parting bead 21 of a Window frame and preiera'bly above the lower sash 22 employed in said frame, which sash is slidingly mounted for travel in said groove. The extreme niar- 11 preferably are so i paced as to engage opposing faces of the stop 20 and ijiarting bead 21, said engaging members being slightlyicontracted so as to position the supporting arm 14 inclined upwardly as shown. ln such position, When downward draft or strain is applied to the outer end of the supporting arm, it tends to spread the engaging members 1'0, 11 and cause them to contact more firmly with or bite into the opposing faces of the stop 20 and parting bead 21. Such arrangement ot' the engaging members and supporting arm also locates the y engaging member 11 at slightly `greater altitude than the member 10, thus providing that an attempt to elevate the sash 22 Will cause the engage the inemapply upward strain thereon;

ber 10 and such upward strain having the eect of spreading the further Without the frame.

utilizing the engaging members still dislodging the device from Thus provision is made for bracket or supporting device ino members 10, 11 on the for a window lock which will effectively prevent raising of the sash beyond a point predetermined by the location of the bracket;

The eccentric pivoting of the engaging bar 14 provides for an adjustment of the lateral spacing of engaging faces of said members to compensate for diderences in Width of various grooves 19 or different spacings apart of stops 2O and parting beads 21; one adjustment being effected by inverting the member 10 as shown by dotted lines, thus increasing the effective width of the engaging devices by the degree of eccentric pivoting of said member, and another adjustment being eected by inverting the member 11, thus contracting the e'dective width of the device by the degree of eccentric pivoting of said member; such adjustments being indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

The brackets may be located at any desired altitude Within the length of the groove 19 above the lower sash 22 and the brackets may be employed to support shade rollers as indicated or any other rod, pole yor device susceptible. of being attached thereto.

Either bracket may be released from the frame in which it is mounted by manually moving the outer end of its supporting arm upwardly through an arc, such movement being communicated to and causing the contraction or approach to each other of the engaging members 10, 11.

I claim as my invention-- 1. A bracket, comprising engaging meinbers arranged substantially parallel with each other, a supporting arm extending transversely of the central portions of said engaging members, and spaced pivots separately connecting said supporting arm and ,v engaging members.

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n 2. A bracket, comprising engaging members made of bar metal and each formed With a roll or eye on each end, all of the rolls or eyes lying at one side of the plane of the engaging member, a supporting arm extending transversely of the central portions of said engaging members and on the opposite side thereof from said rolls or eyes, and pivots connecting said supporting arm and engaging members.

` 3. A bracket, comprising counterpart engaging members made of bar metal and each formed with a roll or eye on each end, all of the rolls or eyes lying on one side of the plane of the engaging member, a supportarm extending transversely of the cenon the opposite side thereof from said rolls or eyes, and pivots .connecting said supporting arm and engaging members. v

Copies of this patent may be obtained for adapted ve cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. C.

l. A bracket, comprising engaging meinbers arranged substantially parallel with each other and spaced apart, a supporting arm extending transversely of the central portions of said engaging members, and spaced pivots separately connecting said supporting arms and engaging members ecceiitrically.

5. A bracket, comprising counterpart engaging members arranged substantially parallel with each other and spaced apart and adapted to lie with their lengths vertical, a supporting arm extending transversely of the central portions of and projecting at one end materially beyond said engaging members, and spaced pivots separately connecting said supporting arms and engaging members eccentrically.

6..The combination of a support formed with a groove, engaging members mounted in parallel planes in said groove, extreme opposite faces of said engaging members being adapted to engage opposing walls of said groove, and a supporting arm extending across and pivoted at points spaced longitudinally of said arm to said engaging members approximately midway between the ends of said members, said supporting arm extending at one end beyond said groove, each engaging member being wholly revoluble on said arm independentl of the other member.

7. The combination of a support formed with a groove, engaging members mounted in parallel planes in said groove, extreme opposite faces of said engaging members being adapted to engage opposing walls of said groove, and a supporting arm extending across and pivoted to said engaging members approximately midway between the ends thereof, said supporting arm extending at one end beyond said groove, the pivoting of the engaging members to the arm being eccentric to the centers of said arms and in respect of the width thereof.

8. The combination of a support formed with a groove, engaging members adapted to be mounted at different altitudes and in i parallel planes in said groove, extreme opposite faces of said engaging members being to engage opposing Walls of said a supporting arm extending across and pivoted at points spaced longitudinally of said arm to said enga ging members approximately midway between the ends of said members, said supporting arm extending at one end beyond said groove, said supporting arm and pivoting means constituting the only connection between said engaging members.

HERBERT W. SMITH.

"Commissioner of Patents, 

